Nice thread...
No mother board to my (limited) knowlage supports EAX. it is highly proprietary. from what i understand, maybe... in the future they may license it. that being said...
our games are programed to use EAX (im pretty sure SH4 uses it?) so why not take full advantage of it rather than emulate it.
i just upgraded rigs, my old rig used a Audigy 2ZS platinum, i now run XFI gamer (~70 bucks at newegg). to be honest, i cant really tell the difference in sound between the two cards... but the game has always sounded great to me in 5.1 with my creative speakers. I think a creative card will be a step up from any MB audio, but i didnt find any change when i 'moved up' from audigy to the XFI. however, people rave about XFI?
ps. this thread may get better exposure in the main forum...
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